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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio
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	WILMER C. EDWARDS is the owner of a fine farm of 108 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, a property which he purchased in 1918, and he also owns twenty-three acres in Athens Township.  He is proving himself one of the vigorous and resourceful exemplars of agricultural industry in his native county and is a representative of a family that was founded in the Buckeye State in the pioneer epoch of its history.  Ignatius Edwards, his great-grand-father, was born and reared in Pennsylvania and came with his family to Ohio in the early part of the eighteenth century and established a home in Belmont County.  His son, Henry Edwards, was reared to manhood in Belmont county, and as a young man was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Schatzer, with whom he finally established his home at Charlestown, a little village in Cadiz township, Harrison County, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker, and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.  Their children were six in number - John, Ignatius, Henry, Jr., Rachel, Martha and Jane.  The father not only followed his trade but also engaged in farming in Cadiz Township, an unassuming, reliable citizen of sterling character.      Henry Edwards, Jr., father of Wilmer C., of this review, was born in Belmont County, April 30, 1842.  When he came to Harrison County he first settled in Athens Township, but the year 1881 established himself upon a farm in Cadiz Township, where he remained until his death in 1891, his venerable widow still remaining on the old homestead at the time of this writing in the spring of 1920, and being a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, as was he also.  Mrs. Edwards, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Deyarmon, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 24, 1844, and is a daughter of David and Sarah (Paxton) Deyarmon, early settlers in that county.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became the parents of four children who attained to years of maturity, and of the number Wilmer C., of this review, is the youngest; Lorena Bell, now deceased, became the wife of Edward Philpott and is survived by three children - Craig, Flora Bell and Mary; Alice, the second child, remains with her widowed mother on the old homestead; Lizzie Catherine, deceased wife of Charles Hagadorn, became the mother of three children- Harold, Raymond and Donald.      Wilmer C. Edwards was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, Dec. 18, 1879, and his early educational discipline was obtained mainly in the Science Hill School in Short Creek Township.  He has been continuously associated with farming enterprise from the time of his early youth, and came into possession of his present excellent home farm in 1918, as previously noted in this sketch.  He is one of the progressive farmers and stock-growers of the younger generation in Cadiz Township, and he and his wife have a host of loyal friends in their native county, both being members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political allegiance being given to the republican party.      In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Edwards to Miss Clara Warren, eldest daughter of James and Elizabeth Warren, of Cadiz Township, and they have a winsome little daughter, Leone, who holds gracious sovereignty in the attractive family home. Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921
	WILLIAM L. ENGLAND, M. D.  Few men of Harrison County have been more closely identified with the professional and business life of the county, or have won a greater measure of the esteem of his community than has Dr. William L. England, who for the past forty years has been a successful physician of Jewett.      Doctor England is descended from an old Pennsylvania Quaker family which has been in Ohio for over 100 years.  Isaac England, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in eastern Pennsylvania.  He came to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1806, and a few years later he settled in Cross Creek Township, that county, on 135 acres of land, for which he paid $1,200, and this land is still in the family name.  He became the father of a son, David, and a daughter, who married a Mr. Green.      David England, son of Isaac the pioneer,,, was born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1809.  He spent practically his entire life upon the old England homestead, where he died in 1901.  He married Elizabeth McGrew, who was born near Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1830, the daughter of Finley and Deborah (Blackburn) McGrew.  Finley McGrew was long a prosperous farmer in Jefferson County, where he reared a large family.  The McGrews were Quakers.  David England and wife became the parents of the following children: Elma, who has never married; Isaac Newton, who served as an enlisted soldier during the Civil war as a private in Company H, Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was taken sick, confined to the hospital and finally was invalided home, where he died as a result of his disabilities in 1863; Deborah, who married Stephen Morton, a Civil war veteran; Oliver, who met death by drowning when he was twenty-one years of age; David, who was a resident of Steubenville, Ohio, where he died in January, 1920; William L., subject of this review, and John B., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who died at Senecaville, Ohio, in 1917.      Doctor England was born near Steubenville, Ohio, on April 18, 1853.  He was educated in the district schools, Hopedale (Ohio) Normal School and the Slatelick Academy of Pennsylvania.  He taught school for six years, and in 1878 entered the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, were he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of '81.  In April, 1881, he entered the general practice of medicine in Jewett.  In 1884 he engaged in the retail drug business, and since that time he has practiced medicine in conjunction with his drug store.      For many years Doctor England has been active in the business and civic affairs of Jewett, and has greatly contributed to the growth, development and welfare of his adopted city and of the entire community.  In 1898 he assisted in the organization of the Jewett Bank, the only banking institution in this part of the county, and since its organization he has been its president and one of its guiding spirits.  In 1909-10 Doctor England erected the England Block on Main Street, which is regarded as the best business property in Jewett.  The block is of yellow-faced brick, forty-one by seventy-five feet in dimensions, two stories and is in every way a modern business building.  The first floor is occupied by the England Drug Store and the James A. McKee Company's mercantile establishment, while the entire second floor is devoted to the England Auditorium, Jett's only public hall.  So it will be seen that Doctor England ahs done his full share in the civic as well as professional and business life of Jewett.      On October 6, 1881, Doctor England was united in marriage with Sadie, the daughter of Thomas and Malissa (Martin) Roberts, and to them have been born three children, as follows: Thomas, who died an infant in 1885; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Dr. C. H. Lynch and they are residing at Middletown, Ohio; and William, who married Susan Beeman and resides at Galion, Ohio.  In addition to their own children, Doctor and Mrs. England have reared two nephews, Paul R. and John R. England.  The former was but two weeks old when he was taken into Doctor England's home.  He was educated in the Jewett High School, the Scio School of Pharmacy and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy, and is now the proprietor of the married Carrie Dennis.  John R. became an inmate of the England family when he was eight years of age, and that was his home until, at the age of eighteen years, he enlisted in the United States Maries for service in the World war.  He died in the Portsmouth (Virginia) Naval Hospital on Christmas day, 1917.      Doctor England and wife are members of the Jewett Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which they take deep interest.  In all the relations of life, professional, business and social.  Dr. England has lived up to high standards and ideals, and by doing so he has now a lasting place in the esteem of his fellow-citizens which will serve to keep him in grateful remembrance by the People, especially by the many of whom he has ministered professionally for so many years. Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921
	JOHN S. EVANS.  It would be difficult to find a family more representative of the solid reliable qualities deemed so desirable in a neighborhood of hardworking, thrifty and loyal Americans than that bearing the name of Evans, of whom John S. Evans of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is a worthy member.  He was born at Covington, Kentucky in 1870 a son of George Evans, and grandson of High Evans, both of the last two being natives of Lannasanna, North Wales.  Hugh Evans was a minister of the Methodist faith, who died in North Wales when forty-five years of age.  In addition to discharging his ministerial duties he owned and operated a woolen factory in his native place. Hugh Evans was the father of the following children:  Anna, Mary, Margaret, Ellen, Jane, William, Richard, John, George and an unnamed infant son.      George Evans, who was born in 1834, was reared in North Wales, and there was married to Jane Jones, who was born in North Wales in 1838, the marriage taking place in 1861.  As a young man he learned the bricklaying trade, but did not find the opening he desired in his own land, so decided to seek his fortune in another.  About 1865 he came to the United States, bringing with him his wife and one child.  They stopped for a short time at Troy, New York, from whence they made their way westward as far as Cincinnati, Ohio.  A few months later they made another change when they went to Covington, Kentucky, and that city continued to be their home until 1870, when they went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and during the short time they lived in that city George Evans was employed on the construction of the old Postoffice Building.  In 1871 he came to Cadiz, Ohio, and there he assisted in erecting the mill, and set the first steam engine in it.  About 1875 he and his family returned to England, but he came back to the United States by himself in 1884, and after three months spent at Cadiz, Ohio, getting things ready form them, he sent for his family, who then joined him.  From then on he continued to reside in Harrison County.  He and his wife had the following children: MAriam Jane, who married James Mattern; Anna, who married Asbury Freshwater; John S., whose name appears at the opening of this review; William who married Clara Mealey; George, who was fifth in order of birth; and Ellen, who married Charley N. Raynard.  George Evans died in October, 1913, and his widow in June, 1916, both as devout members of the Welsh Baptist Church.      John S. Evans followed his father's example and learned to be a bricklayer, and worked at his trade for number of years, and during that period did some contract building.  For the past nine years, however, he has been engage3d in farming and also deals in stock to some extent.  His ninety-five acres of land are well cultivated and devoted to a general line of diversified crops and the raising of some stock.      On Nov. 2, 1892, John S. Evans was married to Margaretta Osburn, a daughter of John and Sarah (Amspoker) Osburn, of Archer Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Evans have two children: Susie Alice, who married Oakley Henniss, and has one child, Ellen; and Sarah Margaret, who married Benjamin H. Findling, and has one child, Dorcas Winnifred, who was born Oct. 28, 1916. ~ Page 762 - Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921